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Title: Water Resources Development by the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers in Missouri
Description: Photos with drawings showing the modification of the the Little Blue River with dams and lakes, by the United States Army Corps of Engineers, in order to control its potential flooding and to create recreational water resources.
Date: 1979-01-01
Object Type: Report

Title: Business Beat: Groundbreaking April 5
Description: Description of a project to study water resource management in regard to urban planning.
Date: 1975-04
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Blue Mills, Missouri, Covered Bridge
Description: Head-on view of a car driving through a covered bridge on the Little Blue River at Blue Mills, Missouri.
Date: 1915-09-24
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Geologic Cross Sections of Kansas City and Jackson County
Description: Six cross sections of areas of Jackson County, Missouri, and Kansas City, Missouri, illustrate altitude above sea level and types of bedrock. Labels display locations of creeks and rivers, as well as major city thoroughfares including Southwest Boulevard, Armour Boulevard, and 75th Street.
Object Type: Map

Title: Good Roads and Safe Bridges
Description: Photo of a covered "bridge of ancient construction on main road between Independence and Buckner, over Little Blue river."
Date: 1908
Object Type: Book

Title: Jackson County's Little Blue River Valley: Balancing Development and Preservation of an Historic Rural Landscape
Description: What is referred to as the Little Blue Valley is the drainage basin for the Little Blue River and covers a third of Jackson County, Missouri. The article gives the history of this area including its significance during the Civil War. The Battle of the Little Blue as well as guerrilla activity is recounted. Large farms developed later and are featured. The author challenges that the area be preserved and not overtaken by urban development.
Date: 2005
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: The Prelude: Battle of the Little Blue Set the Stage for Westport
Description: Review of the Battle of the Little Blue, a daylong series of skirmishes on October 21, 1864 during the Civil War along a 7.5 mile strip of what is now eastern Independence. Also discusses the proposed construction of roadways that will traverse the area. Fighting began at Ripley Junction, now a tourist site near the Little Blue Trace Trail off Highway 24 in Independence. "Near here, General John Marmaduke's forces extinguished a fire set to a bridge by the Eleventh Kansas. By saving the bridge, Marmaduke's artillery and infantry avoided wading into the steep banks of the Little Blue River. Ripley Junction will be the site of an interpretive battle marker. The Lawson Moore Home [nearby] had been evacuated earlier as a result of Order No. 11, and it was one of the few structures in the area that wasn't razed. Officers and enlisted men who died in the battle are believed to be buried next to a nearby barn."
Date: 2008-12
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Author's Interest in Historic Site Is Romantic: Wants Old Mill Marked
Description: Article about the Blue Mills and Blue Mills Landing areas along the Little Blue River in eastern Jackson County, in terms of its historic significance as a commercial grain center as early as the 1830s, deserving of a historic marker.
Date: 1978-01
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Map of Jackson County Missouri
Description: Civil War era map of Jackson County, Missouri, showing roads, rivers, and towns. Typical section numbering pattern. Map key not included.
Object Type: Map

Title: Little Blue Parkway
Description: Review of the development of Little Blue Parkway from I-70 to Highway 24. Includes color photograph with color-coding showing the various building phases.
Date: 2010-05
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Woods Chapel Quadrangle
Description: Topographical map of eastern Jackson County, Missouri, including Lee's Summit, Lake Lotawana, and the East Fork of the Little Blue River. Map also depicts railroads, highways, and major roads. Surveyed in 1934; Glenn S. Smith, Division Engineer and topography by J.B. Leachman and S. Buell.
Date: 1934
Object Type: Map

Title: Lee's Summit Quadrangle
Description: Topographical map of an area of Jackson County, Missouri, including the city of Lee's Summit and the Little Blue River. Also depicted are roads of varying grades, township boundaries, railroads, and numerous schools, churches, and cemeteries.
Date: 1949
Object Type: Map

Title: Lee's Summit
Description: Topographical map of an area immediately to the south and east of Kansas City. Bodies of water included are Wildwood Lakes, Military Lake, Unity Lake and the Little Blue River. Railroad lines, roads of various grades, and schools are in evidence, as well as the towns of Little Blue, Knobtown, Vale, Lee's Summit and South Lee.
Date: 1949
Object Type: Map

Title: Woods Chapel Quadrangle
Description: Topographical map of eastern Jackson County, Missouri, including Lee's Summit, Lake Lotawana, Prairie Lee Lake, and Jackson County Lake. Map also depicts schools, churches, cemeteries, railroads, highways, and major roads, and a radio tower.
Date: 1957
Object Type: Map

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